Dear Editor Neonatal suppurative parotitis (NSP) is rare; fewer than 90 cases were reported before 1970[1]. A study by Spiegel et al identified only 32 cases in the English literature between 1970 and 2004[2]. Another study by Ismail et al identified 12 new cases in the English literature since 2004[3]. We are reporting another case. Most cases were male (77%) and one third of them were preterm...

Salivary duct carcinoma is a distinctive primary neoplasm of the major salivary gland characterized by aggressive behavior with early metastasis, local recurrence and significant mortality. We report a 40 year old male with parotid swelling diagnosed as pleomorphic adenoma, who underwent parotidectomy with modified radical neck dissection and later, on routine histopathology, the swelling was r...

Salivary duct carcinoma is a rare and highly aggressive malignant neoplasm that frequently metastasises to other organs, but cutaneous metastasis is uncommon. There are only 6 cases reported in the literature with metastases to the skin and in all cases the tumour originates from the parotid gland. We present a case of skin metastases from the submandibular gland that was mistaken for basal cel...

Abstract Parotid duct injury is a rare complication of cutaneous surgery usually occurring after excision deep infiltrating tumours on the cheek. The existing literature limited to case reports. We present our experience two cases encountered in unit over last 15 years. Our first patient was an 87-year-old man referred for Mohs biopsy-confirmed morphoeic basal cell carcinoma (BCC) his right Dur...